1. Hacia un principio de complementariedad en lingüística.
- Author
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Gil, José María
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LINGUISTICS , *LANGUAGE & languages , *GENERATIVE grammar , *SYSTEMIC grammar , *COMPARATIVE grammar - Abstract
Generative and systemic-functional theories may be conceived as scientific theories: they have confirmed hypotheses, they provide explanations, and based on these explanations, they make predictions. Nevertheless, both theories use incompatible assumptions about the same object: language. After analyzing the problem of confirmations and explanations in linguistics, this incompatibility will be treated in terms of "a principle of complementarity": Language is, simultaneously, a "faculty of the mind" and a "product of culture," but both aspects (the "mental" and the "cultural") cannot be captured by any single theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2007